Road church

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A road church is a roadside church, one of a network of such churches in Denmark (Danish: vejkirke), Germany (German: Autobahnkirche, open all year), Estonia (Estonian: Teeliste kirikud), Finland (Finnish: tiekirkko, Swedish: vägkyrka), Norway (Norwegian: veikirke),^[1] Russia (Murmansk oblast) and Sweden (Swedish: vägkyrka). The churches are kept open for tourists during the summer holiday season.

The only road church in the Czech Republic is the Chapel of Reconciliation (Czech: kaple Smíření), located on the D5 motorway in west Bohemia near Plzeň, built in 2008.

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List of road churches in Estonia

The first road churches (Finnish: tiekirkko, Swedish: vägkyrka) were opened in Finland during the 1990s. There are about 265 churches that act as roadside churches in the summer time. Most of the churches are Lutheran and some are Finnish Orthodox.^[3]

The first road church was opened in Germany in 1958. In 2012 there are 39 road churches or chapels.^[4] Some of them were built on purpose in a rest area, others are old village churches which happen to be situated near an access point. In liturgical terms, they range from ecumenical chapels with no formal rank up to fully consecrated Roman Catholic churches. Churches are open all year.

1. Ökumenische Autobahnkapelle Dammer Berge
2. Ökumenische Autobahnkapelle Roxel
3. Evangelische Autobahn- und Gemeindekirche Exter
4. Evangelisch-lutherische Autobahn- und Gemeindekirche Peter und Paul, Uhyst am Taucher
5. Ökumenische Autobahnkapelle Geismühle
6. Katholische Autobahnkapelle St. Raphael, Nievenheim
7. Evangelische Autobahn- und Gemeindekirche Gelmeroda
8. Evangelische Autobahn- und Gemeindekirche Waldlaubersheim (Martinskirche)
9. Katholische Autobahnkirche St. Christophorus Himmelkron, Bad Berneck
10. Autobahnkirche "Maria, Schutz der Reisenden", Adelsried
11. Katholische Autobahnkirche St. Christophorus, Baden-Baden
12. Katholische Autobahn- und Pfarrkirche "Maria am Wege", Windach
13. Evangelische Autobahn- und Gemeindekirche Duben
14. Katholische Autobahnkapelle St. Antonius, Gescher/Coesfeld
15. Ökumenische Autobahnkapelle "Galluskapelle", Leutkirch im Allgäu
16. Evangelische Autobahnkirche Medenbach
17. Evangelische Autobahn- und Gemeindekirche Kavelstorf
18. Ökumenische Autobahnkapelle "Jesus - Brot des Lebens", Groß-Hesepe
19. Ökumenische Autobahnkapelle "Emmauskapelle", Engen (near Singen)
20. Ökumenische Autobahnkirche "Licht auf unserem Weg", Geiselwind
21. Evangelische Autobahn- und Gemeindekirche Werbellin
22. SVG-Autohofkapelle Schlüchtern
23. Autobahnkirche Siegerland
24. Evangelische Autobahn- und Gemeindekirche St. Benedikt, Hohenwarsleben
25. Evangelische Autobahn-, Stadt- und Klosterkirche Brehna
26. Evangelische Autobahn- und Gemeindekirche St. Petri, Brumby
27. SVG-Autohofkapelle Hessisch Lichtenau
28. SVG-Autohofkapelle Schwabhausen
29. Ökumenische Autobahnkirche Waidhaus
30. SVG-Autohofkapelle Kirchheim/Hessen
31. Ökumenische Autobahnkirche Jakobikirche, Wilsdruff
32. Evangelische Autobahn- und Gemeindekirche St. Pancratius, Rothenschirmbach, OT der Lutherstadt Eisleben
33. Autohofkapelle an der A 44 Kassel-Dortmund, Abfahrt Diemelstadt
34. Evangelische Autobahnkirche St. Kilian
35. Autobahnkapelle Kassel "Licht auf dem Weg"
36. Autobahnkapelle Hamm
37. Autobahnkirche RUHR in Bochum
38. Autobahnkirche St. Paul, Wittlich
39. Autobahnkirche St. Thomas von Aquin, Trockau
40. Evangelische Nikolaikirche und katholische St. Marienkirche Grasdorf (Holle)

• San Giovanni Battista, Highway A11, called "Church of the Motorway" (1960–64), by Giovanni Michelucci

List of road churches in Norway

There were two road churches in Murmansk oblast open in summer 2012.^[5]

List of road churches in Sweden